Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux reveal the roles they originally wanted to play in CrimesoftheFuture:
There’s loads to admire in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, but the relationship between Viggo Mortensen’s Saul Tenser and Léa Seydoux’s Caprice is the beating heart of the movie.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY With Crimes of the Future now playing in theaters, I got the chance to chat with Mortensen and Seydoux about their experience making the movie. Ultimately, it's impossible to imagine anyone other than this particular pair playing Saul and Caprice, but there actually was a time when both were considering taking on different roles in the film.
“When I read the script I related more to Caprice because there was something about the relationship that she has with Saul Tenser that I liked. I loved the love story in the film. But I would have played any role for David. I just felt that I maybe had more to say with this role.” While Mortensen wasn’t ever given an offer for a different role in the movie like Seydoux, when he initially read the screenplay, he did find himself drawn to another character as well, the role of Detective Cope who’s now played by Welket Bungué. Mortensen explained: